Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:28:53 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222172853.GC16833@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021222064026.GA421@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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On 2002-12-22 01:52, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> wrote: > Meanwhile, stability under extreme loads (which may occur 0.1% of > the time) may be a priority for servers, but for desktop machines > and "numbercrunching" machines, raw performance the remaining 99.9% > of the time is far more important. Even on uniprocessor machines, > linux sometimes "feels" faster, if (or because?) it's somewhat less > solid (eg the async-mounted filesystem, etc), and these perceptions > eventually do influence user choice... Yup. I have heard the argument "but it feels faster" many times from Linux-using acquaintances & friends. This doesn't make the user choise any more correct or wrong though. The "feel" is not a very objective way of measuring things, and choises based on the general feel of a system are sometimes .. well .. unlucky? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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